Renaissance and reformations : an introduction to early modern English literature
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Renaissance and reformations : an introduction to early modern English literature
（Blackwell introductions to literature, 12）
Blackwell Pub., 2005
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Renaissance & reformations
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-238) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction : new worlds of words
- Speaking and writing
- Reading, publication, performance
- Forms, ancient and modern
- Defining the past
- Designing the present
- Fictive persons and places
- Godliness
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume offers a description of early modern habits of writing and reading, of publication and stage performance, and of political and religious writing.
An introduction to early modern English literature for students and general readers.
Considers the ways in which early modern writers construct the past, recover and adapt classical genres, write about people and places, and tackle religious and secular controversies.
Illustrated with a profusion of excerpts from early modern texts.
Writers represented include More, Erasmus, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, as well as less well known authors.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements.
Introduction: New Worlds of Words.
1. Writing.
2. Reading, Publication, Performance.
3. Forms Ancient and Modern.
4. Defining the Past.
5. Designing the Present.
6. Fictive Persons and Places.
7. Godliness.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
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